Children&#39;s closet kit



J1me 1965 R. A. KIECHLE CHILDREN'S CLOSET KIT Filed July 9, 1963 INVENTOR. RICHARD A. KIECHLE BY6J ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,187,904 CEHLDRENS CLOSET KIT Richard A. Kiechle, Mill Valley, Calif., assignor to Tubes & Cores, Inc., a corporation of California Filed July 9, 1963, Ser. No. 293,598 1 Claim. (Cl. 211118) This invention relates to a clothes hanger and more particularly relates to an adjustable childs clothes hanger of such height that a child can hang up his clothes at an age before he can reach the standard closet hanger dowel of conventional height.

It is an object of this invention to provide an easy-toinstall coat hanger for childrens use.

Another object of this invention is to provide the secondary hanger so that a larger number of shorter articles can be hung in a closet.

A further object of this invention is to provide an auxiliary coat hanger which may be easily dismantled and stored when it is no longer needed.

Another object of this invention is to provide an auxiliary coat hanger of adjustable height so that it can be progressively raised as a child grows older.

Yet another object of this invention is to provide an auxiliary coat hanger which is inexpensive since, in its preferred form, it is made of paperboard elements.

Other objects will be apparent from the specification which follows.

In the drawings forming a part of this application:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a coat hanger embodying the present invention.

FIGURE 2 is an enlarged, partial, exploded view of the tubular element which forms a part of the hanger of the present invention.

Referring now to the drawings by reference characters, there is shown a conventional dowel 3 which is installed by means not illustrated in a closet. Such bars or dowels are ordinarily installed at about eye level of an adult and therefore are beyond the reach of children. In accordance with the present invention, support members generally designated 5 having a plurality of openings 7 are installed over the dowel 3 by means of hock elements 9 formed at one end of the members 5. The members 5 are preferably made of an inexpensive flat material, such as ordinary cardboard or foam core hardboard. Similar materials such as plywood or plastics may be employed. A lower bar 11 is provided which is passed through the series of aligned openings 7 in the elements 5. It will be apparent from the drawing that the bar element 11 can be passed through any of the series of openings shown, so that it 3,187,904 Patented June 8, 1965 can be placed at any convenient height, depending upon the need. The bar element 11 is preferably made in three sections, namely, 13, 15 and 17 and, as is shown in FIG- URE 2, the bar elements are provided with extensions 19 of reduced diameter so that they may be coupled together merely by inserting the reduced diameter portion of one bar into the open end of the adjacent bar. Preferably, the elements 11 are also made of cardboard.

Although the device has been described in connection with childrens usage, it is apparent that the device may be also used when it is desired to hang a large number of relatively short articlesin a closet. By using the device in this manner, the capacity of an ordinary closet can be doubled. Thus, hangers such as at 21 can be placed on the conventional bar 3, while other hangers such as 23 can be placed on the lower bar 11.

As a child grows older, the hanger bar may be progressively moved to the upper holes and, eventually, dispensed with altogether as the child is able to reach the conventional dowel. The device can then be removed without defacing the existing structure in any manner.

I claim:

A hanger for closets and the like made entirely of cardboard comprising a plurality of long, narrow, spaced, flat members, each of said fiat members being formed into an integral hook at one end, said hook being adapted to be hooked over a conventional dowel of a closet, said members having a plurality of holes at the opposite end, and a bar element placed through the holes in the flat elements, said bar element being made of a plurality of cardboard tubes of uniform size, at least one of which has a reduced end portion to couple it to an adjacent tube, said bar element forming a secondary hanger of reduced height parallel to a dowel.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 193,919 10/62 Meyer 211--113 X 488,757 12/92 Friendlich 211-1 13 2,193,215 3/40 Witter 211-117 X 2,340,033 1/44 Young 22388 2,456,000 12/ 48 Irling 211105.3 2,462,43 1 2/49 Schneider 211113 FOREIGN PATENTS 2,001 2/ 89 Great Britain. 602,638 5/48 Great Britain.

CLAUDE A. LE ROY, Primary Examiner. 

